San Joaquin Bishop Commends Invitation to Join Southern Cone

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2007/11/16/san-joaquin-bishop-commends-invitation-to-join-southern-cone

[The Living Church News Service] 17 Nov 2007--Bishop John-David Schofield of San Joaquin has commended the offer extended by the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone in a pastoral letter that he directed to be read in all parishes during a Sunday service prior to a decisive vote by diocesan convention next month.

“We welcome the invitation extended by the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone,” Bishop Schofield said in a prepared release accompanying the letter. “This is a sensible way forward and is by no means irrevocable. During the 1860s, the Dioceses of the Southern States left the Episcopal Church and then returned after the Civil War. As the Southern Cone invitation makes clear, the Diocese may return to full communion with the Episcopal Church when circumstances change and the Episcopal Church repents and adheres to the theological, moral and pastoral norms of the Anglican Communion, and when effective and acceptable alternative primatial oversight becomes available.”